2. Press and hold the power button until you hear the capacitors drain

3. Open the access panel and move the CMOS jumper from pins 1 + 2 to pins 2 + 3

4. Plug in the power cable and boot your system

5. Turn off your system when you hear a beep

6. Move the CMOS jumper from pins 2 + 3 back to 1 + 2 and boot your system as normal

This will clear all of your settings in the CMOS, including the power-on, user, and administrator passwords. This process will not clear any hard drive or solid state drive passwords that might be set or affect your operating system passwords.